Trophies describe an account in one number: how strong its opponents are and how
much of the grind is behind it. That number is where everyone starts, and it
stops being useful sooner than people expect.
Roughly:
- Under 20k — early account. Most brawlers still locked, matchmaking gentle.
- 20–50k — the bulk of the collection is unlocked, power levels are uneven.
- 50k and up — nearly everything unlocked. From here the count says little
about the account and a lot about how long someone played.
Above 50k the interesting questions change entirely: how many brawlers are
maxed, and how many have hypercharges. An account with 80k trophies and twenty
maxed brawlers plays worse than one with 60k and seventy — the second one can
actually field a team at its own level.
That is why our Brawl Stars listings state trophies, brawler
count and maxed count separately. One number would hide the difference that
matters.
The first version of this article ranked trophies third. The shelf disagrees:
across every listing we hold, the trophy count tracks the price more tightly
than anything else on the card, and the roster size runs beside it. Each
band up is a step in price, and the top band is several times the bottom.
The hypercharge count is the surprise the other way. Where sellers state it,
it does not move the price at all — it appears on the templated cheap
accounts of one seller house, and a higher count there is not a dearer
account. Which brawlers carry a hypercharge is read from the screenshots and
can decide between two equal rosters; the count on the card cannot.
What the shelf does not measure it does not claim: maxed brawlers, rare
skins and account age are not stated as numbers on the card, so read them
in the screenshots and price them between otherwise equal listings — not
before. Live medians by slice are on the
Brawl Stars price page, calculated from listings
currently on sale rather than estimated.
This is the part specific to Supercell games and the one people skip.
The account travels with its Supercell ID, which means whoever controls the
attached email controls the account. Full-access listings include that email and
let you change it — do that before your first match, not after.
Listings without email access exist, cost less, and say so on the card. They work,
and they stay recoverable by the previous owner indefinitely. That is a rental
with no end date, and it should be priced like one.
- Trophies, brawlers and maxed count — all three, stated separately.
- Whether the original email is included.
- Screenshots of the account screen, not of a brawler.
- What happens if the account is recovered — ask, in writing.
The general version of this checklist is in
how to check an account before you pay.
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